Meat cleaver man shot by cops

1st October 2011

There were dramatic scenes in Silesia this week after police shot a man who had attacked them with a meat cleaver.

According to reports on TVN, the incident took place in the early hours of Thursday morning in the city of Zabrze when authorities were called to investigate a domestic quarrel between a young couple.

After arriving at the scene the man, aged 28, refused to show the officers any form of identification and the two parties became involved in a heated argument which eventually spilled out onto the street.

During the scuffle, one officer was hit in the face and the man ran into a nearby shop where he picked up a large meat cleaver and threw it at the police striking one of th ...